Brickell was born in Senatobia, Mississippi and spent his early years in Yazoo City. He would go on to become a book columnist for New York's Evening Post and later a general editor of Henry Holt and Company Publishing House, He would rise to literary editor of the Post and later a general editor of the O. Henry Memorial Prize Short Stories.

Includes letters from Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty and other authors to Brickell, a literary agent. Typed inventory available (57 boxes).

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